Barnabas Stedman

Barnabas Stedman was a Ku Klux Klan member from Atlantic County, New Jersey. Stedman worked as a truck driver, and he blamed his situation on African-Americans and immigrants. In 1920, when Grand Cyclops Joseph Earl Dinler was arrested and the meeting broken up by police, Stedman told Sheriff Eli Thompson that it was not a crime to be a Klansman; Thompson agreed, but told him that lynching African-Americans was.